Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Piecing Me Together, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Intersectionality, Identity, and Discrimination
The Power of Language
Mentorship, Opportunity, and Dignity
Friendship
Summary
Analysis
The next afternoon, Lee Lee comes over to do homework. Her homework is more interesting than Jade’s: she’s writing an essay about how social movements use media. She’s writing specifically about Emmett Till and the civil rights movement. After they work for a while, Lee Lee reads Jade her poem for Natasha Ramsey. It’s really good. Lee Lee says she wants to do something more with it—all her classmates’ poems were good, and it seems sad for no one else to hear them. The girls spend all night planning an open mic and art show in honor of Natasha. Jade thinks of all the people who offered to help her and suggests they sell the art. She hopes that Mia will host the event and that Mia really meant what she said when she told everyone that her gallery was for the people.
Because of what Jade has learned through Woman to Woman (the importance of speaking up, the value of helping others, and how willing people like Andrew are to help), Jade now has the skills to successfully organize a benefit event for a cause that means a lot to her. When she remembers all the people who offered to help her, Jade also starts to recognize how extensive her community can be if she continues to feed it and make connections. She can no longer stay silent if she wishes to make this kind of impact on the world.
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